... and expenses of travelling to a place of safety for each person ten pounds in addition will be paid. Signed, ABDUL ACHMET BEY, ?? of the City of Argos. Mitsos read it through once without taking in the meaning, far less the full bearing of it, and then putting it back in his pocket blew out his light, and lay with wide-open eyes staring at the darkness, while the full meaning of the words ...

... ,71, 11 ?? r I i ?? t i c IC' it life, t v i c BY M1. 11. SPIELMIANN ONCE more it is proposed, in all seriousness, to restore to the statue of the Venus of Milo by providing her with the missing limbs. But for the source of the information such a proposal would Ie received with a smile of incredulity. Meddling with a master- piece of antiquity is not wholly unknown in France, where many ...

... Topics of the iltcc - l - DISQUIETING is perhaps a mild term to apply to A DIS- a situation which, whatever its intrinsic gravity, QUIETING has clearly marked its alarming influence in the OUTLOOK variations of prices on the Stock Exchanges. The coincidence-apparently not undesigned- of the sensational demands of Russia on China, with the departure of Colonel Lugard for the scene of possible ...

... T'HE MASSACRE AT, E RZEROUM OCTOBER 30, 1895 FROM PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN ON THE THREE FOLLOWING DAYS TIILRE have bcen few more terrible pages in modern history than the fearsome record of the brutal and unprovoked tassacres of peaceable and inoffensive Armenian Christians tthich have been perpetrated by the Turkish troops in Asia Mlinor, andl chronicled by the correspondents of our daily ...

... haprt in tilt 0ff-ecaft : sebylt anve t (at au THE DRAG-HOUNDS, AND COURSING ON THE HEATH NEWMARKET during a race week bears a very different ap pearance than at ordinary times, and a chance visitor to the old town when there was no. racingtakingplace would see nothing much to distinguish it from its neighbours. Still there is always a certain amount of life in Newmarket, and the most ignorant ...

... Gfe 6oiurt ECHOES OF THE ROYAL WEDDING THE popular enthusiasm shown at the Royal Wedding has greatlydelighted the Queen and the Royal Family. Accordingly Her Mlajesty acknowledges her people's loyalty in a touching public letter written in her own hand. The Queen aptly remarks that such devotion is indeed nothing new to her, for is weal and woe she has ever met with the warmest and kindest ...

... forfigil 'Otb)s THEE SPIRIT OF REVOLUTION WHATEVER form of Government France may live under, her people never seem to lose their revolutionary instinct. The tiniest spark will kindle the flame. Nothing could be more trivial than the origin of the recent riots, which turned part of Paris into a regular battle-ground, with grave injury to limb, life, and property. The students organised a ...

... OU R ORCHARDS THE steady increase in the orchard area in England is one of the few satisfactory signs in an agricultural outlook all too gloomy. The Government return just out shows an increased cultivation of fruit trees in Beds, Berks, Bucks, Cambridge, Chester, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Essex, Gloucester, Hereford, Herts, Kent, Lancaster, Leicester, Lincoln, Middlesex, Monmouth, Norfolk, ...

... (O tat Olb 031-41t BY ABCHIBALD FORBES IV. A STRANGE fate has overtaken the battlefieid of Sedan. The battle itself, in its phases, and yet more in its results, must rank as the most memorable of European events since Waterloo. In many respects the intrinsic interest of the great struggle around Vauban's old fortress in the Ardennes surpasses that of the earlier contest in which British ...

... VIEW OF SANTANDER FROM THE HILLS Eb.e 5antanber pisa5ttr Oust illustrations show the town of Santander and the ?? harbour before the dynamite explosion, and a view of the buildings on El Muelle, the quay, during the progress of the con- flagration which succeeded the disaster. It was to the quay, El Muelle, that the ilhac/hjchaco was moored, and where the dynamite was being discharged at the ...

... 9 l'dea ?? u THE newly launched Revenge is one of the largest battleships afloat, comprising one of eight built under the Naval Defence Act of i889. An idea of the size of the vessel may be gained from the fact that she is 20 ft. longer, 5 ft. broader, and has 4,150 tons more displacement than the ill-fated Victoria. The dimensions, &c., of the Revenge are as follows:-Length, THE NEW ...

... ?? ?? um ?? F . . . . . . . . .t, 14 I I . THE EXPIRING SEssroN,-The sharp little controversy between Lord Grey and Mr. Balfour respecting the virtues of the compromise over the Parish Councils Bill has scarcely_ disturbed- the tranquillity of the political air. Still the anticyclone holds sway, and one can scarcely believe that this sedate and profoundly bored assembly is the same which, only ...